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Why Not Scotland? | The Rewilding Nation documentary

YouTube video by The Scottish Rewilding Alliance

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Our department is looking to hire an Associate/Full Professor in the field of Virology. Please share and apply if you are intersted. Also happy to answer any questions recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF09552

Associate/ Full Professor of Virology in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry

University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!

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Hi #Drosophila folk: I'm advertising a 2-year #Postdoc, funded by a BBSRC grant on the genetic and immune determinants and evolutionary constraints underlying extreme pathogen transmission phenotypes. Deadline 29 April, details in the link below, or feel free to email: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh

Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

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99% Invisible is up for 3 Webbys & I'm really feeling the need to win them. Would you consider voting for us? We're up for best Arts & Culture for Power Broker Best A&C episode for Rocket Man Best Limited Series for Power Broker (we are currently losing this!) vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...

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I just voted in The Webby People's Voice Awards and checked my voter registration.

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“From April 14-18, select UBC graduate programs at UBC Vancouver will re-open their applications for US citizens to be considered for Sept 2025 or Jan 2026 entry - they are ready to provide quick admissions decisions for these applicants“ #gradstudent #gradschool www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant...

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

My former and current departments are hiring. Exeter (former) is hiring for Lecturer (Asst Professor) in IR. At Southampton (current department), @rikkidean.bsky.social is hiring a post doc for his ERC. Both departments are wonderful, and happy to speak glowingly of either. Links to each in thread.

A New Zealand-based program seeking out phage for a variety of different biocontrol programs...looks interesting!

Heather Hendrickson@drhhnz.bsky.social · last yr.

The website for the Adaptable Phage Solutions programme has now gone live! This is a lot of what I am working on and thinking about these days! Great work Laura Williamson, our awesome Programme Manager for getting this up :) www.phagesolutions.co.nz

The epidemiology and evolution of H3N2 canine influenza virus in dogs over 20 years. Lead by @brianrwasik.bsky.social shows that spread is determined by the dog population structure. The virus has not become better at transmitting in dogs after 1000s of transfers. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40040347/

With his new book 'Everything Is Tuberculosis,' author @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social is breathing new life into tuberculosis advocacy www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

John Green Tackles An Injustice Called Tuberculosis

With his new book 'Everything Is Tuberculosis,' celebrity author John Green is breathing new life into tuberculosis advocacy

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A new study from Femi (Oluwafemi) Adu and our collaborators Susan Hafenstein and Hyunwook Lee, showing the structures of the two main antibody forms in dog found in the polyclonal response to the canine parvovirus capsid after modified-live virus vaccination. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Extremely well preserved waka found on Rēkohu. An incredibly rare find of an ocean going canoe in the dunes of the Chatham Islands. #Kikorangi

A waka found on the beach could be the most important discovery in New Zealand archaeology.

YouTube video by Te Ao with Moana

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Happy BHM! Celebrating our history and taking pride and joy in the contribution of Black Americans to this society has been and will continue to be a form of resistance

4 dairy herds in Nevada recently diagnosed with #H5N1 #birdflu were infected with a different version of the virus than has been spreading in cows elsewhere. Evidence of a second (at a minimum) spillover points to the challenge of stopping spread, experts say. www.statnews.com/2025/02/05/u...

USDA milk testing shows different strain of H5N1 bird flu in Nevada dairy herds

The USDA said four Nevada dairy herds were infected with an H5N1 bird flu strain that has circulated in wild birds, making prospects for containment in cows appear dim.

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Come be my colleague! Public Health Entomology faculty position at Penn State (Assistant/Associate). 70% research, 30% extension. (I am not on the search committee but happy to answer any questions that I can) psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Assistant/Associate Professor of Public Health Entomology

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

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Wendy Barclay and I are recruiting a postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of swine influenza viruses and how this impacts future pandemic potential. Job is based at Imperial's South Kensington campus. Drop me a DM/email for more details. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/b... yeah sure ill use blueskinstagram

Exclusive: Bluesky is getting its own photo-sharing app, Flashes

More good news for those looking to exit Meta's social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a

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FMDV in Germany! Highly transmissible virus that can cause devastating economic consequences if not controlled immediately.

Thijs Kuiken@thijskuiken.bsky.social · 2y ago

German authorities move to contain foot-and-mouth disease. p.dw.com/p/4p3mK

"The most likely career path for anyone who has committed misconduct is a long and fruitful career. Because most people, if they’re caught at all, they skate." Our Ivan Oransky on Freakonomics, in an updated episode re-airing this weekend.

Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update) - Freakonomics

Can Academic Fraud Be Stopped? (Update) - Freakonomics

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Want to keep track of the H5 viruses that are circulating so widely, and infecting so many animals now - including cows and humans!

Louise H. Moncla@lhmoncla.bsky.social · 2y ago

Our lab's 2nd preprint is now on bioRxiv! Led by Jordan Ort, we made H5 datasets that enable rapid clade assignment with Nextclade. We released these builds in the spring (due to cow flu) & finally wrote the paper! TLDR: it's fast, easy, accurate, and we hope, useful www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Join us in Montréal for the 2025 ASV Annual Meeting (July 14-17)! Abstract submission closes on February 3rd, 2025 at 11:59 PM (EST). See details here: asv.org/asv2025/

ASV 2025 | American Society for Virology

The website for the 44th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Virology.

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Great study by an expert team showing that one of the polymerase genes (PB2) of the bovine H5N1 shows multiple adaptations to allow better interactions with the ANP32 protein of the host - so that (along with the HA changes) the virus replicates better...multiple steps of adaptation happening.

Tom Peacock@peacockflu.bsky.social · 2y ago

Really proud to share our preprint describing early adaptation of H5N1 to US dairy cattle, and showing how these mutations enhance the ability of the virus to infect other mammals, such as pigs and humans. With @influenzal.bsky.social @vidhid.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social and many more!

North American HPAI panzootic was driven by ∼8 independent introductions into North America via the Atlantic and Pacific Flyways. Transmission via Anseriformes, shorebirds, Galliformes. Songbirds, raptors, and owls dead-end hosts (1/2) 👉 biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

This lecture is strongly recommended.

Thijs Kuiken@thijskuiken.bsky.social · 2y ago

For those interested, my lecture for the University of Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute “The global expansion of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza” is available here on YouTube. It is from May 2024, but is still pertinent. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImFD...

Nice review of where we are with Ancient DNA and changes in immune-related variants through time. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Really excited to share that my postdoctoral work on HPAI in North America is now preprinted! Please feel free to reach out with any feedback and thoughts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Intensive transmission in wild, migratory birds drove rapid geographic dissemination and repeated spillovers of H5N1 into agriculture in North America

Since late 2021, a panzootic of highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus has driven significant morbidity and mortality in wild birds, domestic poultry, and mammals. In North America, infections i...

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Happy Solstice to all who celebrate..if you were buried in Newgrange the sun would be shining on your grave this morning at sunrise.

Had always admired his cartoons...

🦠 We are recruiting two 2-year postdocs to work at the intersection of virus genomics and infectious disease. jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Please share widely!

Glycoshape is 1 year old! 🎂🎁 🎉 Last year today we launched glycoshape.org after extensive consultation with a team of friends and colleagues. As head chef, it is my pleasure and duty to give a few thanks before the toast🥂 1/3